Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: [gentoo-user] Questions--help answer these and you might help Gentoo and Linux as a whole

[kyle]

Use the compile option -j2 to speed up your compilations some.  (use
multiple processors)



On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Mike Frysinger wrote:

> help him out :D
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> Subject: [gentoo-user] Questions--help answer these and you might help Gentoo
> and Linux as a whole
> Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 19:23:04 -0700
> From: "Charles N. Burns" <charles.burns@×××.net>
> To: gentoo-user@g.o
>
> I have a demo for a school tomorrow in which, if I can prove that Gentoo
> will work well as a server OS (to use a big server rather than a bunch
> of small workstations not running Gentoo) then the school will probably
> go with my recommendation, and I have a few questions whose answers will
> greatly help the demo's likelyhood of success. This server will be used
> by thousands of people per year and, if Gentoo, I will let each one of
> them know about it and how to get it. (These are good CS students, the
> type of people that Gentoo is best for, IMO)
>
> 1) Mozilla's cursor isn't blinking as I type this. This is irritating
> beyond belief and makes it impossible to see where anyone is typing. How
> to fix this? (I am in GNOME2, which is what I will use for the demo)
>
> 2) Can Gentoo's kernel safely, stably address 12GB of memory? If not,
> will the stock kernel? (Clearly I have to enable high memory and
> recompile, but back with 1.1a my system would crash when I enabled
> highmem to support the full GB in my Linux server)
>
> 3) Does anyone know how to make HP X-terminals (specifically the Entria
> 2) display 16-bit or 24-bit color rather than nasty looking 8-bit? Does
> anyone know if it can't be done? Does anyone know these things even
> exist? HP doesn't seem to! The things have 2MB of video RAM, so I would
> think they can, but the screen gets scrunched into a small corner and
> gets mangled when we try.
>
> 4) What CFLAGS should I use for the FASTEST compilation. I figure -O0 is
> one (to not optimize). Any others to speed things up? I will be
> compiling like 20+ files at once, so every little bit helps.
>
> 5) Biggie---How do I make X start up with a higher priority every time,
> rather than manually renicing it each and every time it starts? I use
> KDM if that matters. I can use something else, like GDM, if needed.
>
> 6) What other cool stuff can I do for the demo? The server (not mine,
> mine is just the demo) will support 35 X-terminals (the Entria II's I
> told you about above). I plan to show it running GNOME2, Anjuta, and
> EMACS and perhaps a few shells for each user, and then simultaneously
> compiling 20 or so programs to show that the system won't freak out or
> get dog slow. I'd like to show that Linux is very useful for programmers
> learning ANSI C, Java, BASIC (is there a BASIC interpreter for Linux??),
> and general use--such as showing they can use Dia for making their
> flowcharts. My demo system is a dual AthlonXP 1400MHz W\ 1GB RAM and an
> 18GB 10KRPM SCSI drive. The server will be, if the demo works, a dual
> Xeon 2.8 W\12GB RAM and 5 10KRPM SCSI drives in RAID10 + hotspare. (Not
> bad for 35 X terminals!)
> Any ideas on how to show it as useful (if it is for these tasks) and as
> generally cool? I was thinking of showing off a few themes, but they
> will look like crap in 8-bit color...
>
> 7) Hmm, Mozilla is just broken as hell. What browser should I demo?
> Mozilla's cursor doesn't work, cut/paste doesn't work even between
> Mozilla applications, and overall it is being a piece of junk. I see the
> system install emerged 1.0 for some reason. I'll have to try 1.1.
>
> Any other ideas, warnings, caveats, etc? I am doing the demo TOMORROW
> (Friday OCT 4 2002) so need answers ASAP, ***but answers after tommorow
> will still be useful*** because I will have a few days to show off to
> individual instructors.
> Any help appreciated. Thanks.
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